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A 2.8km-deep octopus nursery, only the third known in the world, was discovered by marine scientists in July as they explored previously unseen seamounts off
QCOSTARICA (ScientificAmerican) Last month a team of scientists visited an ethereal nursery on the seafloor off Costa Rica, where they watched in awe as a new generation of deep-sea octopuses gently emerged from a quivering cluster of oblong, semitranslucent eggs. Now the researchers have confirmed these deep-sea dwellers are members of an entirely new, yet-to-be-named…